‘Ensure dignity to the dead at hospitals, mortuaries’
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Former Law Minister writes to CJI to take suo motu cognisance, lay uniform protocol
Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has written to Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde to take suo motu cognisance and lay down a uniform protocol to be sure that the dead are handled with dignity in hospitals and mortuaries.
His letter referred to “heart wrenching visuals aired on various TV channels on November 27 of a dog nibbling away at the remains of a dead girl on stretcher” in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh.
Mr. Kumar, a senior advocate, mentioned such heart-rending scenes of the dead mendacity in a state of indignity present that aberrations proceed to happen in hospitals and mortuaries, particularly amid a pandemic, regardless of the orders of the apex courtroom.
“At a time when the daily mounting of deaths in hospitals is a painful reality as is the piling up of dead bodies in mortuaries, the need for an enforceable and strictly observed protocol for dealing with dead bodies consistent with the dignity of the dead is an absolute imperative,” Mr. Kumar wrote.
He mentioned the nation seems to be to the Supreme Court as the “Republic’s moral and constitutional arbiter… to ensure that at least in death, citizens’ right to dignity is respected”.
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